| Description |
x, 526 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Based on papers from a conference hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies Dept., with co-sponsorship from the Frente Indígena Oaxaqueño Binacional and two UCSC research centers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Building civil society among indigenous migrants / Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado -- pt. 1. Transnational indigenous organizers: lessons from the past and challenges for the future -- The FIOB experience: internal crisis and future challenges / Rufino Domínguez Santos -- Cross-border indigenous organizations: lessons from the past, challenges for the future / Gustavo Santiago Maŕquez, Filemón López, Yolanda Cruz, ... et. al. -- pt. 2. Indigenous migrant civic and social organizations -- Organizational experiences and female participation among indigenous Oaxaqueños in Baja California / Laura Velasco Ortiz -- Building the future: the FIOB and civic participation of Mexican immigrants in Fresno, California / Jesús Martínez-Saldaña -- Collective identity and organizational strategies of indigenous and Mestizo Mexican migrants / Gaspar Rivera-Salgado and Luis Escala Rabadán -- Mixtec farmworkers in Oregon: linking labor and ethnicity through Farmworker unions and hometown associations / Lynn Stephen -- pt. 3. Social and economic processes -- Alive and well: generating alternatives to biomedical health care by Mixtec migrant families in California / Bonnie Bade -- Mixtecs and Zapotecs working in California: rural and urban experiences / Felipe H. López and David Runsten -- |
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Indigenous Mexican migrants in the 2000 U.S. census: "Hispanic American Indians" / Javier Huizar Murillo and Isidro Cerda -- Practical research strategies for Mexican indigenous communities in California seeking to assert their own identity / Edward Kissam and Ilene J. Jacobs -- pt. 4. Comparative perspectives: ethnic and geographic diversity -- Yucatecos and Chiapanecos in San Francisco: Mayan immigrants form new communities / Garance Burke -- P'urépecha migration into the U.S. rural Midwest: history and current trends / Warren D. Anderson -- The blossoming of transnational citizenship: a California town defends indigenous immigrants / Paul Johnston -- Heritage re-created: Hidalguenses in the United States and Mexico / Ella Schmidt and María Crummett -- Expressions of identity and belonging: Mexican immigrants in New York / Liliana Rivera-Sánchez -- pt. 5. Migrants' social and civic participation in their hometowns -- Oaxacan municipal governance in transnational context / Michael Kearney and Federico Besserer -- Migration and return in the Sierra Juárez / Sergio Robles Camacho -- Migrant communities, gender, and political power in Oaxaca / María Cristina Velásquez C. -- "Now we are awake": women's political participation in the Oaxacan indigenous binational front / Centolia Maldonado and Patricia Artía Rodríquez. |
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Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Indigenous peoples -- Mexico -- Congresses.
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Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
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Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Fox, Jonathan, 1958-
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Rivera-Salgado, Gaspar.
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| ISBN |
1878367501 paperback |
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